Jan Ting on Principles & Values

Things are broken in Washington DC, and I'm outraged

I'm in this race because I'm convinced that things are broken in Washington DC. The people that are there, both Democrats and Republicans, have been doing nothing about it. I'm concerned about the big problems that exist in our society-Social Security,
Medicare, & healthcare generally-all of which are headed for a train wreck. The problems are much more serious, even, than we perceive them to be. I'm convinced that this current partisan atmosphere is not one that is conducive to the big solution needed

Source: Delaware 2006 Senate Debate, hosted by WHYY-TV
Oct 20, 2006

Profession: Law professor and immigration commissioner

Ting is a Michigan native who moved from Philadelphia's Main Line to the Alapocas neighborhood west of Wilmington in 1984 when his wife, a physician, opened a Delaware practice. Ting has long been a tenured professor at the Temple University law school i
Philadelphia and is currently a visiting professor at Widener University School of Law in Talleyville. Under the first President Bush, he was an assistant commissioner - one of the top 10 officials - in the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.